About
Hey there, I’m
Pessy Samson
Proud director of Let’sArtit! Championing Art Education that’s fun and actually useful, unlike traditional art schools!
I should have known it would end up like this…while my siblings grew up playing with lego and cricket (true Aussies), I was more interested in drawing and painting.
I would take the papers my grandparents didn’t need any more from their printing business and draw and draw and draw. My favorite haunt was the art shop, where I bought different supplies to try out and take with me whenever we went on vacation or used at home so I could create more art.
My parents wanted me to learn art and channel my artistic desire, so they set out to find me art classes. Little did they know how hard it is to find proper art classes that teach you methods
over tutorials. When I was six, they finally found me art lessons that taught me the skills I needed and gave me the freedom and joy to create art. I loved going to my art classes, where I could just be, it was a time to be still alone with myself away from school, home, and friends.
It also gave me self-confidence as I had a skill that I was good at.
Today, I’m a wife, and mom of four children who love to draw and paint and an accomplished artist and art teacher. Yet, it wasn’t always that way. I started my art teaching career because I thought that if I am good at art, the natural career path would be to teach art. I also wanted others to experience what I felt as a kid when I went to art classes. But creating good art and teaching art in a way children and adults can grasp and understand is two different things.
I tried everything to try and work out how you can teach art so that students of any age can understand and enjoy art. You see, my students were getting frustrated that they didn’t know what they were doing and I was just telling them to do it like so.
It was only when I understood that if I taught the methods for all the basic art fundamentals, the students would have skills they could apply to any artwork they approached.
I spent hours and hours googling and reading art books trying to find out where I could access this information. In the end, I broke every part of art down into easy and approachable methods that any student could understand and kept on testing and tweaking until I realized it was working.
Doing this made me love teaching as my students were creating beautiful art with confidence and my enrollment skyrocketed.
I also had parents telling me that I was teaching their children, ‘more than art’ as I was enhancing their self-confidence and giving them a skill they could be proud of.
I was transforming the younger generation and I couldn’t have been happier!
I went from stressed-out, unconfident art teacher to loving my job and I am still at it, over ten years later! I have taught hundreds of kids, teens, and adults and have taught others how to teach who are now teaching their own classes in the US and the UK.
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